“I won’t walk away”: Under-pressure Aloisi digs in at Roar

Brisbane Roar coach John Aloisi says the club’s embarrassing AFC Champions League loss won’t be the catalyst for his resignation.

Aloisi’s men were upset 3-2 by unfancied Filipino champions Ceres-Negros, who are just two weeks into pre-season training, in Brisbane on Tuesday night.

But the real red-face moment came when Eric Bautheac was stranded on the sideline for more than five minutes without a shirt to wear after the No.22 fell off his jersey.

It left Brisbane with just ten men on the park in comical scenes that quickly spread around the world on social media.

Denied when attempting to return in the No.30, the Frenchman was finally allowed back on the field wearing a strategically taped-up No.77.

The Roar sit eighth with four wins and four draws from 17 starts in the A-League season, with the under-pressure coach blasting his players post-game for what he viewed as a complacent and unprofessional performance.

Aloisi has promised changes ahead of Saturday’s A-League trip to Central Coast, which may also include the person in charge of uniforms after the coach embarrassingly shifted the blame on the Bautheac slip-up post game.

“There’s always pressure on a coach … but I won’t walk away, I don’t give up,” he said.

“If the people up above want something different and don’t think I’m the man to take them forward then they’ll make the call but I won’t walk.”

Waz -The ball doesn’t stop at JA’s feet. The problems at Roar are much deeper than that simple analysis, and last night;’s debacles, both on and off the field ,were simply another example of how far things have deteriorated.
Maybe those factors, plus that abysmal attendance, will finally ignite a bomb under the people who run the club,it is a situation that is calling out for a “strong” man, well versed in how to run a professional football club AND a money making concern.The sooner the better, otherwise? jb.

There is no way that he should resign. In any event support for asso football in Queensland is very low- much lower than Sydney or Melbourne. There was hardly anyone in the crowd last night even though it is still school holidays and we are constantly told that the ‘youff’ love this so called sport. This season has been a disaster and Gallop and Lowy should explain themselves.

Correct. Not a lot of respect but a whole lot of entitlement and a sense that Aussies have a right to knock-off Asian teams by just turning up.

The Philippines is one of those nations that have reached out to their expats and brought home a generation of European raised players. Ceres-Negros’ lineup was arguably better credentialed than Brisbane’s,

Mike Ott, Manuel Ott, Ingresso,, Schrock, and Reichart are all German. Christians a Belgian youth international, Steuble the Swiss league, Nazari for Malmo in Sweden, Porteria and Kane from the US college system, Marranon, Herrera, de Murga and Doblas Spaniards. Uesato from Japan. Most might have only been youth and B-teamers in Europe but they have resumes at least as good as Brisbanes.